Chief Executive in Council with with the Committee for Safeguarding National Security of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Implementation Rules for Article 43 of the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Safeguarding… (2020)
“ An authorized officer or the defendant (or, in the case of a defendant who has died, the defendant’s personal representative) may make an application for variation in respect of a confiscation order. If the Court of First Instance is satisfied that the realisable property is inadequate for the payment of any amount remaining to be recovered under the confiscation order, it must make an order that such lesser amount as the court thinks just in all the circumstances of the case be substituted, and that a shorter term fixed in accordance with section 9 (8) of this Schedule be substituted. ”
